The mob of Trumpian fascists. Source: dnyuz.com
On 6 January chaos broke as a fascist mob was allowed to enter the US Capitol building to disrupt the counting of electoral votes. This was a self-coup; which could have been carried out successfully seeing as the United States government is already a white supremacist police state. The mob was arrested and removed and the process of counting the electoral votes was not hindered, and Joe Biden was confirmed president soon afterwards. The political shitshow ended with 5 people dead, as reported by the Guardian.
The comparison by many liberals of the Capitol proceedings to that of [insert first Latin American capital you can think of] is an insult to those suffering from American imperialism in the Global South. Many such liberals, such as Jake Tapper, continuously justify American exceptionalism. But they do not, however, look in horror when fascists in Latin America try to take power from the democratically elected leftwing governments. Thus the liberal message is clear: fascist coups are not to be tolerated in the US but are most definitely to be encouraged in other countries.
On another note, the fact that the Capitol was stormed is not something one should be horrified at. Had this been a Communist or Anarchist insurrection, it would have been a pretty sight to see. Indeed, when Black Lives Matter protesters were at the White House last summer, there was a small part of me that wished they had occupied it. However, white leftists (communists, anarchists, socialists, etc) should never be the ones to declare the revolution against the State, because oftentimes, such as the George Floyd uprising of 2020, it is marginalized folks and especially Black folks who are at the front lines. Like many pointed out, the difference between the police and National Guard response to Black Lives Matter protesters in the summer of 2020 compared to the Trump mob makes it clear, yet again, that the police state would have never let a leftist insurrection get within a mile of the Capitol. The establishment knew that this ‘attack’ by a Trump mob would be the perfect opportunity to feed the victimization narrative of the ‘sacred US values’ being undermined by Trump. In reality, those sacred values have never meant anything to the ruling class, and the entirety of the American government (yes, that includes the Squad) has been propping up the very violence the Trump mob has displayed yesterday.
If only those MAGA fools realised that they are still winning as long as the US remains as a settler-colonial police state. If they knew that Biden was more their friend than their enemy, perhaps we would have gotten through another leap year of American non-democratic processes legitimizing the rogue, white supremacist, imperialist, settler-colonial state again. Though it provided for some exciting entertainment on an otherwise dull Wednesday night.